Anna Groundwater, a curator at National Museums Scotland, talked about the particular appeal of pieces related to Mary, Queen of Scots. By Susanne Fowler The messages, written while she was imprisoned ...

Moments before her execution, Mary had one last message to send to the world. Mary was sentenced to death after being found guilty of plotting the assassination of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. As ...

"The scene of this picture is laid in the abbey of fotheringhay, the last of the numerous doleful prisons in which this lovely but unfortunate queen was immured, and the prison in which she ended her ...